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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection: 7. If You Make A Mess, Should You Clean It Up?

The only way to recover the simplicity is by cleaning up the mess that was made by falsely rejecting group selection in the 1960s.

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By Caiphas Brews Soyapi In Law

On Decolonizing the Law: Views from a South African Legal Scholar

Trisos, Auerbach and Katti recently published a manuscript titled “Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology”. Here, they present five action calls as possible vehicles for shifting mentalities...

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By Dina Lupin In Gender

Decolonizing Science Means Taking Indigenous Knowledge Seriously

In their article, Decoloniality and Anti-oppressive Practices for a More Ethical Ecology, Trisos, Auerbach, and Katti highlight the ways in which epistemic exclusions have shaped ecological research, defining what counts...

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Politics PROSOCIAL

Reclaiming Our Common Ground of Being Human (Part 1 of 3)

Capitalism, neoliberalism, and state communism have intensified inequalities and increased global impoverishment. How can we…

Robert Styles, Exmond E. DeCruz
April 14, 2022

Environment Politics

What Does Decolonization Mean for Conservation?

Humans are naturally prosocial. But we need to address our underlying power structures and rethink…

Subhashini Krishnan, Sutirtha Lahiri
April 11, 2022

Biology Culture Psychology

Evaluating Narratives of Conscious Evolution

Download this article as a PDF version. The idea that we can consciously evolve our…

David Sloan Wilson
April 4, 2022

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Culture

The False Tropes of Darwinism and a New Narrative of Prosocial Evolution

The narrative of Darwinism on television programs is portrayed almost exclusively in a negative light.…

Eric Michael Johnson
September 26, 2021

Anthropology Gender

Same-Sex Sexual Behavior in Chimpanzees Challenge Our Gendered Biases About Evolution

The big question is, how did we manage to miss these behaviors in chimpanzees for…

Michelle Rodrigues
September 15, 2021

Anthropology Culture

New Funding Opportunities to Address Hot Topics in Cultural Evolution

Researchers of cultural evolution may leverage this understanding to enable them to predict (and potentially intervene) in…

Rachel L. Kendal
September 8, 2021

Biology History

Remembering Richard Lewontin: A Tribute From a Student Who Never Got to Meet Him

We have lost one of the twentieth century’s deepest thinkers whose work will have a…

Madhusudan Katti
July 5, 2021

Business

Agile as a Case Study of Cultural Multilevel Selection: A Conversation with Laurent Alt

Multilevel Selection (MLS) is a theoretical framework that originated for the study of genetic evolution…

Laurent Alt, David Sloan Wilson
May 12, 2021

Biology Evolutionary Psychology

Why Is A Polo Shirt Like A Peacock’s Tail?

Life history theory suggests that displays of luxury items provide signals with social goals.

Daniel J. Kruger
April 20, 2021

Biology History

Ronald Fisher Is Not Being ‘Cancelled’, But His Eugenic Advocacy Should Have Consequences

How should we remember scientists that altered our conception of the natural world but who…

Eric Michael Johnson
April 12, 2021

Biology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Past, Present, and Future

Evolution is inherently a contextual science. Species are shaped by aspects of their environments that…

David Sloan Wilson, Steven C. Hayes
April 7, 2021

Biology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Psychopathology and Behavior Change

https://youtu.be/AOSvkCxSZmM In this final discussion, it was striking how different the perspectives were between evolutionary…

David Sloan Wilson, Steven C. Hayes
April 7, 2021

Humanities

Turning Fiction Into Reality: A Conversation with Stuart Libman

Fiction has a way of communicating a moral ideal better than dry intellectual prose.

David Sloan Wilson
March 17, 2021

History Humanities

Greek Democracy as a Major Evolutionary Transition: A Conversation with Josiah Ober

The 1970s marked a conceptual breakthrough in evolutionary biology that was beyond Darwin’s imagination. Individual…

Josiah Ober, David Sloan Wilson
March 11, 2021

PROSOCIAL

Introducing Prosocial World to the World

Darwin’s 212th birthday is a good time to introduce Prosocial World (PW), a new organization…

David Sloan Wilson
February 12, 2021

Biology Psychology

Martin Luther Rewired Your Brain

Your brain has been altered, neurologically re-wired as you acquired a particular skill. This renovation…

Joseph Henrich
February 9, 2021

Business Psychology

Does Competition Increase Trust?

Research shows that when a person moves into a more competitive industry their trust tends…

Joseph Henrich
February 2, 2021

Biology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Small Groups

Prosociality requires not just figuring out what’s prosocial within the group, but also how a…

David Sloan Wilson
January 29, 2021

Psychology Sociology

Why Immigration Drives Innovation

U.S. immigration is but one example of how the interactions of many diverse minds—our collective…

Joseph Henrich
January 26, 2021

Biology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Behavioral and Physical Health

Many social and personal problems are adaptive in the evolutionary sense of the word, but…

David Sloan Wilson
January 22, 2021

Economy

My Advice to an Aspiring Economist: Don’t Be an Economist

Climate change, collapsing ecosystems, savage wealth inequality, tech monopolies, and the growing precarity of livelihoods…

David Bollier
January 19, 2021

Biology Business

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Organizational Development

Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize by creating a database of common-pool resource groups from…

David Sloan Wilson
January 15, 2021

Podcast

Atlas Hugged and Our Moment of Choice, with Kurt Johnson

Kurt Johnson wears many hats--a distinguished evolutionary biologist, a leader of the Interspiritual Movement, an authority on the…

David Sloan Wilson
January 14, 2021

Podcast

Atlas Hugged and the Nature of Fiction, with Brian Boyd

We discuss Atlas Hugged and Brian's biography-in-progress of the legendary philosopher of science, Karl Popper,…

David Sloan Wilson
January 14, 2021

Podcast

Atlas Hugged and Catalyzing Positive Change in the Real World, with David Korten

David Korten is the renowned futurist, author of When Corporations Rule the World and The Great Turning among many other…

David Sloan Wilson
January 14, 2021

Economy

Economics Will Never Move If We Try To Change It Incrementally

Economics provides an outstanding example of the “you can’t get there from here” principle in…

Blair Fix
January 12, 2021

Biology Politics

Learning from Evolution about Free Speech

The world is in turmoil over the incendiary language of a US president, the invasion…

David Sloan Wilson
January 11, 2021

Biology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Emotions and Empathy

How does felt emotion overlap with expressed emotion and its social functions? What is the…

Steven C. Hayes
January 8, 2021

Economy

Advice for Evolutionary-Minded Economics Students

Despite exciting synergies between evolution and economics, the disciplines interact less than they should. How…

Donald Cox
January 5, 2021

Biology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Development and Adolescence

Are adolescent behaviors innately pathological or are they a result of the environment? Prominent scholars…

David Sloan Wilson
January 1, 2021

Economy

A Copernican Revolution in Economics

Does evolution offer the tools for economics to take the next great leap?

Dennis Snower
December 30, 2020

Economy

Placing Economics into the Cooperative Frame

The evolutionary approach tells us we can increase the chances of our group's survival through…

Andreas Duus Pape
December 28, 2020

Biology Psychology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Symbolic Thought and Communication

Are there universal features of grammar and syntax?

Steven C. Hayes
December 22, 2020

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